Contest of Champions – Round 1 Recap

Well, I think the event ran very smoothly.  We started early, every round started on time and we were only 10 minutes late on the final scores – mostly because we had a traffic jam of people at the top and needed to actually go down to the 4^th person for best general, and then only have a tiebreaker to determine that.

So congratulations to our winners:

Overall:  Joe Finlayson, playing High Elves (and reader)

Sportsman: Jeff James

General: Mike Carbone

Appearance: Sean Smaker

Player’s Choice: Micah Pierce

Wooden Spoon: Troy Perez

Most of those names should look familiar, as I think all but Jeff has been on the other end of a battle report at least once.

At Great Escape Games, we don’t have the same person winning more than one award, so I also want to acknowledge that Joe was top General.  The second place General was Jeff, who took Sportsmanship.  The third best General was Sean, who took Appearance which left the prize going to Mike, but only after a tiebreaker to beat out Greg Barret.  Jeff won sportsman ship only on the second tiebreaker to top Jesse Cuccia.  The other awards were easily taken by Sean, Micah and Troy.  Congrats.

The final standings are:

Player	Club	Army	Overall	Sports	General	Paint Award	Player's Choice	Wooden Spoon
Joe Finlayson	Redding Gamers	High Elf	108	32	52	26	0	57
Sean Smaker	Guns N' Warpstone	Lizardman	103	37	42	32	3	47
Greg Barrett	Guns N' Warpstone	Empire	98	34	40	27	2	45
Jeff James	N/A	High Elf	98	38	42	18	0	27
Van Nguyen	Guns N' Warpstone	Ogre Kingdom	92	35	35	15	2	35
Zach Brooks	Guns N' Warpstone	Bretonnia	92	36	35	13	1	35
Doc Glenboski	Powers of the North	Orcs and Goblins	89	36	31	23	0	31
Mike Carbone	Min Max	Dwarf	86	37	40	6	0	35
John Lee	Bizarro Hammer	Vampire	85	35	29	21	0	29
Darrell Grigsby	Min Max	Orcs and Goblins	84	35	30	19	0	30
Jesse Cuccia	Rogue	Bretonnia	79	38	19	16	1	19
Troy Perez	Guns N' Warpstone	Warrors of Chaos	79	36	22	12	2	7
Paul Kuehnert	Bizarro Hammer	Ogre Kingdom	77	37	36	0	0	31
Rhett Ussery	Rogue	Bretonnia	76	31	38	5	0	23
Steve Fox	Powers of the North	Warrors of Chaos	75	35	19	22	0	24
Drew Seagle	Minions of Mayhem	Warrors of Chaos	73	37	27	7	0	27
Henry Griep	Min Max	Chaos Dwarf	69	32	14	25	2	29
April Hall	Minions of Mayhem	Daemons of Chaos	66	34	27	1	0	32
Nick Adams	Bizarro Hammer	Warrors of Chaos	63	35	12	12	0	17
Micah Pierce	Min Max	High Elf	60	37	19	0	7	19

Only a 20 person turn out, which was disappointing, but it did seem some of the Modesto guys who usually come up, instead went to Las Vegas Open (where I hear they only had 24 on the fantasy side).

Based on my running of the event, I have now retooled my excel sheet to more easily include sorting and tiebreakers.  Basically, I just automated it all so that I just have to click buttons and enter data and not actually have to think of which fields I need.  Made things very smooth last time, and now without having to do all the sorting each time, should make it even smoother.  I still haven’t figured out a good way to automate the pairings, so I will have to be careful not to pair people with those they have already played.  Easy enough with 20 people, but I would want an upgrade before going to 60 and 5 rounds.

At Great Escape Games there is also a prize for the yearly winner, based only on Overall score.  I have already set up a page to keep track of that, and will start to include it after the April event.  I was also thinking of entering the event into RankingsHQ, and had already created the event.  I’m reconsidering now that he is again asking money from players.  I have no problem with him getting paid through sponsorship (where every player gets in), but feel that charging individuals for entry invalidates that system as players drop out.  So if he wants to charge, that’s his business and he can, but I think I will be choosing not to support it by uploading scores.

Now back to your regularly scheduled Waaaph!PACA battle reports and hobby updates… so behind on Adepticon.

Note:  I did include comment space on the after game/event sheets.  I however went to have a meeting with the store owner to review and that turned into him taking them and being too busy, so I can’t yet go over the feedback and therefore have no changes to make at this point.  I expect they will mostly be mission comments which I will try to keep in mind as I develop future missions.